1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
ReplyDeleteA: The most difficult concept for me was the charts. To me, the charts were very confusing, and it was harder to understand than other concepts and chapters. It took me some time. When I started to get the concept more, but it was too late, because the test was very soon. The easiest is chapter 5 for me. I might make a lot of mistakes, but I enjoy factoring and I think it is easier when you have lots of methods of your own.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
A: I think listening in class, participating, doing classwork and homework, etc. They all helped me a lot. I think that if you listen well in class and keep up, that's the best strategy that you can have. Also I go to a hagwon for math as well. I miss it a lot because of afterschool activities and projects, but it still helps me a lot as well.
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
A: Like I said, listening well and trying is the best strategy that I can have to help myself. I think it would be better for more people(including me) to ask more questions to Mr.Jobe , outside of class time, when help is needed. Only asking in hagwon can sometimes harm you.
1) There wasn't a certain topic that was difficult, but rules such as the Properties or the factoring steps are a pain to use because if you miss one detail, the whole answer is wrong. Also, it gets confusing to memorize all of the rules and find them in a problem. Some of the easier things we learned are the "only one way to do it problems" such as multiplying polynomials and using scientific notations.
ReplyDelete2) I don't really have a strategy and I just go along with what we learn. I dislike extra work so the factoring test and the Properties quiz was pretty much the only tests I studied for. As long as I pay attention, review my homework properly and occasionally drop by for help, I think that even a fast-moving class is pretty simple to keep up- though I get a feeling I'll be needing to study more in the coming semester
3) Copying down problems and showing the steps clearly can help you during homework. Instead of having to read through the notes and sometimes getting confused, I like to look back the problems I did and review the steps to solve the homework problems. I don't have any thoughts of wanting to change or improve the class because I'm the type to go along with the flow. Also, I don't need any changes to help me understand better because I understand everything we are being taught.
1) Finding the GCF had been the easiest for me because I had learned it before therefore I am quite used to it. However the thing we learned the last (sorry, I don't know to name for it??) was hard for me because I had a hard time guessing the numbers.
ReplyDelete2) No, I don't have any tutors of academies. The only thing I attend is the school itself, however I solve problems in our math textbook if I don't understand a section.
3) I can always check in with the teacher or just continue to solve problems and try to understand them.
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
ReplyDeleteA. The easiest concept for me to grasp was the number line concepts that we did at the beginning of the year. It was very easy because I did many similar if not identical things in previous school years of mine.
The hardest concept was probably factoring and I felt like this class was actually going into "real" algebra now. Factoring is complicated and there are many steps however with toil and hard work I am confident with the subject of factoring now.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
A. Well mainly I just pay attention in class. When I do then I don't have to do anything else to get the material. It already is injected into my brain. However when I don't pay attention then I have to actually study the textbook in order to be able to do the homework.
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
Well I think that the worksheets you give us and the classwork and fun presentations you give us in class are a great way of helping us stay focused and able to learn. I think this class is a great class and we learn a lot in here. And even if we don't get the material even with the stuff this class gives us, you arrange times at lunch or after school to make sure we always get the material a hundred percent. I don't really see how we could improve this class.
1. I think the most difficult concept we have covered was factoring and the ComicLife project, because factoring was a whole new thing to me that I’ve never been through before, and the ComicLife project was more like confusing and spoiled for us because of Yelim’s hard drive breaking down. It was also difficult too, because it was the first time I’ve ever used ComicLife. The easiest concept was probably the Bubble Mind Map project, because Sheamin helped me out a lot in understanding, and they were all the types of questions I knew well.
ReplyDelete2. I don’t go to any Math hakwons, nor take any tutors so it could have been more difficult for me to catch up with this fast-moving course, but I think I’m pretty good at taking notes and organizing them so that I can review them at home, and I also think that Mr. Jobe is pretty good at explaining things to understand easily.
3. I personally think that Mr. Jobe’s way of explaining formulas by using a Keynote is quite helpful, because they’re written up so that the students can write them down in their note books, and they include examples of each formula too, so we can see the main concept of it. I think maybe we could improve class time by having a brief content of where we can find the explanations and examples of a formula in our textbooks that we need help in, on our wiki.
1) The most difficult concept for me was the factoring because there were a lot of steps and many different ways to factor which was very confusing. The easiest was the rate times time questions because making a graph made it easy to understand.
ReplyDelete2)Re-reading the questions until it makes perfect sense has helped me with the materials in this fast=moving course. Outside of class, I go to hagwon to help me keep up.
3)Some strategies that are already being used in class to help me understand the materials are acting out the word problem and doing the problems together step by step. Having more time to do a certain problem would be a good improvement.
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
ReplyDeleteThe most difficult lesson this semester was the charts and not enough info. lesson, because the complex words in the problem confused me on how I should set up the chart, the easiest lesson was the properties lesson, because each properties may be similar but mostly different from one another so it was easy to memorize them.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
The thing that mostly helped me through my studies are the homework assignments and just reviewing while doing them, and participating in class and listening to examples.
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
Warm ups that review past lessons are good because it helps you remember them and this helps in learning new lessons. I don't think there is any need of improvements because things the way they are already helps me understand.
1) Out of all the concepts we've covered the properties were the most difficult for me to grasp. The properties were the most difficult because I had to memorize all of them as well as identify what it does. The easiest concept we've covered is the rate time distance questions because we used charts to help us.
ReplyDelete2) Strategies that helped me keep up with the materials in this fast-moving course were looking over the quizzes and homework we checked. I go to a math academy outside of class however I don't use the academy for help about what we learn in school.
3) Good strategies that are already being used in class are the practice games we sometimes play. I think this is a good strategy because it shows whether we actually understand the topic, and if we can solve it quickly without a problem. I don't think there needs to be any improvements to help you understand the material.
1. The hardest concept to grasp for me was the factoring pattern for ax2 + bx - c when c is negative. This was the hardest at first because I didn’t understand how and where you should put the numbers in which order and the signs had to be different and such. It was very confusing, long, tiring, and after some practice, I got used to it, but it is still the hardest concept of the year so far. The easiest concept was multiplying monomials. It’s simple, fast and easy if you are good at multiplication. At first, multiplying two monomials such as: 2abc • 7bcd looks hard, but all u have to do it multiply the variables with the variables and the coefficient and the answer would come out: 14ab2c2d.
ReplyDelete2. One strategy I used was to do all of my homework. By doing homework, I got to practice what I learned in class that day. Doing homework basically gave me extra practice. Another strategy I use in class is to write down notes. By writing down notes in class, I can study at home and use them in case I have trouble remembering the concept.
3. One good strategy that are already used in class are the pizzazz worksheets that we receive. They give lots of practice and I can check if my answers are correct. Another strategy is the warm-up. The warm-up questions are related to the homework we had so we can warm-up with what we learned so we can learn on top of that with the new lesson. An improvement that could be made in class to help me better understand the material would be longer classwork assignments. Sometimes, I feel as if the classwork assignments are too short and I need to practice more with the assignment.
1. The most difficult one for me to grasp was the other trinomials (the guessing problems) because sometimes there are so many possible answers and usually my last choice is the correct one so it is sometimes very annoying and needs patients to try all the combinations. I think the easiest concept was just like finding the GCF and lie Prime Factorization because they were simple and there was usually an answer to it, not prime.
ReplyDelete2. Strategies that have helped me keep up with the material in the fast-moving course is try solving odd numbers and check the answers at the back of the book since we do even number problems in class. I also always looked at all the worksheets we got before a quiz/ test since I know that questions on the test will be probably based on the questions on those worksheets.
3. A good strategy that are already being used in class are those review worksheets and those pizzazz worksheets you give us because they can help us review and catch parts we are weak on. I don’t think there is much improvements we have to make since all the worksheets we do and the warm up questions already helps us with improving math.
1) The hardest concept for me to grasp was the properties because many were similar and could be easily mixed up. Also, when we had to decide what property each step represented, I was often confused on which one to use. The easiest concept was multiplying monomials. All we had to do was be careful with the exponents on the variables and make sure we didn't make any silly calculation mistakes.
ReplyDelete2) Some strategies that have helped me keep up with the material in this course was finishing all my homework, reviewing the problems I got wrong on both homework and tests, and asking questions when I don't understand something. I do have a math tutor that comes once a week for an hour, but we study completely different things.
3) A good strategy that is already being used in class is the pizzazz worksheets. The pizzazz worksheets are great in practicing using the concepts we learned and checking if our answers are correct. An improvement can be made by doing more partner work so that we can discuss different strategies among ourselves first.
1) The most difficult concept for me to grasp was when we had to make a chart for the word problems and use no solution. This was the most difficult for me because this had been something new that I hadn’t learned before so it was hard and also I am bad with word problems. Maybe if we didn’t have to make the charts then it would’ve been easier but I think I’m not good at organizing something to make it fit into a chart. I am also bad at rephrasing the problem. For example, if the question said rectangle A is smaller than rectangle B, I should know that the problem is also saying rectangle B is bigger than rectangle A but I get messed up and confused when it comes to that. The easiest concept for me to grasp was this chapter, factoring. This concept was the most easiest for me to grasp because I had learned how to do this before and so it was just like reviewing. Although factoring could take some time, I figure it was one of the most easiest concepts for me.
ReplyDelete2) Strategies that have helped me keep up with the material in this fast-moving course was to review the things that I’ve learned new and do all of the homework assigned. Since the homework that Mr. Jobe gives us is all review for the test, it really makes a difference to do your homework and not doing it. Outside of class, I review and try to study for the things that I don’t really get or ask a friend. Inside of class, I listen when the lesson is about something I haven’t learned before.
3) Good strategies that are already being used in class to help me understand the material is to review the parts that I don’t understand. Improvements that could be made is listening more attentively in class and asking the teacher for help whenever I need it.
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
ReplyDeleteFor me, the most difficult to grasp was the word problems with the charts that we did last chapter. This was hard for me because just by reading the word problems you had to find out which kind of chart to use and the answers would be totally different if you get the wrong chart. The easiest concept was chapter 5 for me the one we just took a test on. I thought it was easy because you can solve any thing with just one pattern, you don’t have to memorize anything else.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
I usually review what I learn in class, and the homework that we have has a lot of practice questions in it. I tried solving the odd numbers also, then checking the answers on the back of the book.
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
I think that the games we play in class are good strategies for us to understand. Also, I think that the classwork helps us to understand what we just learned and for the homework, I like how you solve the questions that we are not sure of on the board
1. Out of all the concepts we’ve covered, making the charts to find the answers to the word problems was the most difficult for me to grasp because it was hard to find out where to put numbers in the charts. The easiest concept was factoring because all I had to do was find the greatest common factor of two or more polynomials.
ReplyDelete2. Completing the homework assignment have helped me to keep up with the material in this fast moving course. I solve some math workbooks to be a fast and precise mathematical problems solver.
3. Simply listening to the teacher, doing the bellwork, classwork and homework assignments, and solving the practice worksheets are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help me understand the material. Solving more problems in the textbook and being able to solve more problems faster can be made in class to better help me understand the material. An improvement that could be made in class to better help me with understanding the material would be a bit harder warm up questions. I also think another improvement would be more classwork assignments. I think more classwork assignments would challenge me and make me a better and faster math problems solver.
1) We have covered a lot of ground so far in this class. Out of all of the concepts we've covered, what has been the most difficult for you to grasp? What has been the easiest? Why?
ReplyDeleteFor me the most difficult was factoring with coefficient on the first binomial because I had to all the factors, try everyone of them out. And if it didn't work, I had to do another set or either write it as prime. This was the hardest because I am not really good and keeping track of what I did and what I didn't do. So once in a while, I had to do all the steps again. For me the easiest was perfect square trinomial. This was the easiest because when I was young, I had a math tutor that would hit me every time I could recite the square until 20 and the square roots. So I had to memorize them by head or else I would have got hit. So in perfect square trinomial, it was useful to know the square and the square roots.
2) What strategies have helped you keep up with the material in this fast-moving course? Is there anything you do inside or outside of class that helps you?
I think most important rule to help keep up is listening, doing classwork and homework, and participating in class. There is no one who teaches and knows the most about the test than the one giving it. However, since Algebra is a hard course in math, I do have a tutor come by. He does help me with math if I have any problem. I ask him questions I didn't get or concepts. I think it is very helpful.
3) This course will continue to move at a quick pace. What are some good strategies that are already being used in class to help you understand the material? What improvements could be made in class to better help you understand the material?
I think the most important strategies are doing your classwork and homework. Classwork and homework is the only way you can test yourself either you got it or not. If you have a problem, you can find it through classwork and homework and ask for a help. I think the class could improve if Mr. Jobe handed more paperwork. Such as the pizzazz worksheet. Even the "jokes" are not that funny, it is interesting to find out so we automatically do some practice.
1. The most difficult concept for me to grasp was the other polynomials. The factors took a lot of guessing for each combination to find the right one. The easiest concept for me was the difference of two squares. Finding and checking the pattern was very simple compared to the other things.
ReplyDelete2. A strategy that has helped me is reviewing quizzes and tests. I also review some of the chapters we learn if I don't fully understand it.
3. A good strategy being used in class are the review games that we do. It pushes us with competitiveness to use what we know. I don't think there is an improvement that should be really made.
The most difficult lesson was factoring. But, frankly I think it was kind of fun because it was challenging. The easiest lesson was the first chapter because it was just a review.
ReplyDeleteKeeping up with a fast moving class is hard, but I just practiced lots of problems.
I think fun activities help people understand more easily. Reviewing a lot would help too.